our feisty heroine's sparkle never dims iĪ tale of our time, a powerful condemnation of global inequality from the point of view of a 10-year-old in impossible circumstances. Original, witty and devastating People Magazine We Need New Names is full of life - you can almost feel the sun on your arms and hear the birds in the trees - and Bulawayo is certainly one to watch Stylist a provocative, hauting debut from an author to watch Elle (US)īulawayo’s novel is not just a stunning piece of literary craftsmanship but also a novel that helps elucidate today’s world Felicity Capon, Daily TelegraphĪ work of gritty naturalism Adam Kirsch, Prospect A provocative, haunting debut from a writer to watch Entertainment WeeklyĮnthralling. Her hard, funny first novel is a triumph. remarkably talented author Michiko Kakutani, New York Timesīulawayo, whose prose is warm and clear and unfussy, maintains Darling's singular voice throughout, even as her heroine struggles to find her footing. Bulawayo has fashioned for her is utterly distinctive - by turns unsparing and lyrical, unsentimental and poetic, spiky and meditative.

She has clothed it in words and given it a voice at once dissonant and melodic, utterly distinct Aminatta Fornaĭarling is 10 when we first meet her, and the voice Ms. NoViolet Bulawayo has created a world that lives and breathes - and fights, kicks, screams and scratches, too. NoViolet Bulawayo is a powerful, authentic, nihilistic voice - feral, feisty, funny - from the new Zimbabwean generation that has inherited Robert Mugabe's dystopia Peter Godwin, author of When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by NoViolet Bulawayo's shatteringly good first novel, We Need New Names Anne Tyler, Good Housekeeping No Violet Bulawayo is definitely a writer to watch Edwidge Danticat

The lives (and names) of these characters will linger in your mind, and heart, long after you're done reading the book. NoViolet Bulawayo's We Need New Names is an exquisite and powerful first novel, filled with an equal measure of beauty and horror and laughter and pain. Her honesty, her voice, her formidable command of her craft - all were apparent from the first page.

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